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Responses to Electron Dance asking The Forbidden question: 'What is a game?'

Started by droqen, September 24, 2021, 09:50:58 AM

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droqen

Quote[..] all our overlapping definitions of a game – a challenging or competitive passtime, a voluntary system of rules, win states, fail states, edge cases, learning curves, agon, ludus, product [..]

[The videogame is] not always ludic; it's not always narrative; it's often neither. It means something close to "digital entertainment product for one or more people that may or may not contain some interative systems".
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QuoteA game is a machine the designer crafts and tweaks to respond to play.
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